Monthly Archives: February 2007

Willy Rampf of BMW has been talking about trying to make his cars more reliable before Australia. The BMWs do seem to be running very well at the moment. Reliability is the achillies heel for these cars. We could be … Continue reading →

I found this on another blog, a very funny alternative view of 2007. A short sample click through for the rest. Pre-season testing continues in Spain. Toyota are one team encouraged by their winter progress and state that they will … Continue reading →

So Scott Speed still hasn’t been confirmed as the Torro Rosso driver number 2 because his commitment or lack of it. You can hear Gerhard Berger talk about it here. It seems like Scott isn’t very good at taking criticisim … Continue reading →

So with less than a month to go until the season starts, the beer is chillin’ and here at SofaF1 we’re just getting revved up. We will have a number of new features rolling out over the next month as … Continue reading →

Bridgestone are still planning to force teams to use two different tyre compounds during a race. The poll on itv-f1.com suggests that fans simply aren’t interested in this manufactured attempt to produce excitement. As much as Formula One is an … Continue reading →

Sorry, especially to Stew, for two video posts in one day but I really thought this was interesting. At Goodwood in 2006 they had Jackie Stewart and Nico Rosberg switch cars and describe what it was like. Nico seemed to … Continue reading →

Was he rubbish? Or did he simply have the misfortune to be the top British racer when Michael Schumacher was at the height of his powers:

“He doesn’t give a shit, You can imagine him saying, ‘Okay, I’m done with F1, bye’ for no reason.” – Mr Villeneuve has made his pronouncement on Kimi saying that he thinks Massa is more likely to be team leader. … Continue reading →

To comfort everyone who is very disconcerted that there are no certainties anymore now that Michael has gone, I am going to accurately predict the order of the teams for the first few races: Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, BMW, Honda, Toyota, … Continue reading →

Nick’s comment yesterday reminded me of something that has annoyed me for a few years now but came to the fore at the end of last year. It’s Martin Brundle’s description of Michael when he was asked if Michael was … Continue reading →